Molasses Drop Cakes

Ingredients

• 1 egg
• 1 cup sugar
• 1 cup molasses
• 1 cup lard
• 1 cup warm water
• 2 teaspoonfuls soda
• 1 teaspoonful ginger
• flour

Method

1. 1

   Drop from a spoon into a buttered dripping pan.

Nutrition per serving

As published

This recipe was extracted from A bill of fare for every day in the year ... (1892) by Beatrice Wilde Bryant, page 74. The excerpt below is the record exactly as published.

^ cup sugar, J^ cup butter, 2^ cups flour, 2 eggs, I cup cold water, 2 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Filling. — Chop a pineapple and sweeten to taste, i hour before making cake. Mix thoroughly and spread between layers. Dust powdered sugar over top layer of cake. WEDNESDAY, AUG. Breakfast — Wheat Germ with Cream, Chopped Veal on ^^m Toast. Warmed Potatoes. Bread and Butter. Coffee. ^^ Dinner— Roast Beef. Gravy. Browned Baked Potatoes. Stewed Tomatoes. Succotash. Bread and Butter. Pineapple Omelet. Supper — Iced M ilk. Crackers. Berries. Cake. Succotash. — Boil i quart lima beans until tender. Cut the com off I dozen ears of corn, drain off water from beans, add corn, sea- son and add a good sized lump of butter. Add i cup of milk or more if too dry, cook 20 minutes after adding corn. THURSDAY, AUG. 10 Breakfast- Berries. Soft Boiled Eggs. Hot But- tered Toast. Coffee. Dinner— Corn Chowder. Sliced Cold Roast Beef. Sliced Cucum- bers, Bread and Butter. Raspberry Float. Supper— Pot-pourri Salad. Bread and Butter, Baked Apples with Cream. Tea. Corn Chowder.— i quart raw com, i pine potatoes, a small piece of salt pork, i onion, i large tablespoonful butter, i pint sliced tomatoes, i pint milk, season to taste. Scrape the corn from the cob, boil the cobs 20 minutes in water enough to cover them, thea skim them out. Fry the onion in the salt pork and strain into com water, add the vegetables, simmer till potatoes are tender, then add butter and milk and season. Serve very hot with crackers. ■- FRIDAY, AUG. II Breakfast— California Breakfast Food with Cream, l^roiled Salt Mackerel, Bread and Butter. Coffee. Dinner— Fried Sword Fish Steak, Boiled Potatoes. Stewed To- matoes. Bread and Butter. Musk-melon. Supper— Fried Cucumbers. Baked Pears. Plain Cake. Tea. Plain Cake.— i egg, i cup coffee sugar, i tablespoonful butter, % cup sweet milk, i^^ cup flour (not heaping), 1V2 teaspoonfuls baking powder. Beat the sugar and butter together for ten min- utes, then add other ingredients. SATURDAY, AUG. 12 Breakfast— Berries. Creamed P'ish. Warmed Po- tatoes. Bread and Butter. Coffee. Dinner— Fricassee Lamb. Mashed Potato. Peas, Bread and Mutter. Raspberry Float. Supper — Mayonnaise of Tomato and Lettuce. Thin Bread and Butter. Sliced Pineapple. Cake. Russian Tea. Fricassee Lamb.— Stew a piece of lamb (off the lower part of the neck) for 2 hours, then add salt and cook for ten minutes longer. Take out the meat and put on split soda biscuit. Season the gravy and thicken as you would for chicken and pour over the meat and crackers. SUNDAY, AUG. Fluffy Egg. 13 Breakfast— Wheat Germ and Cream. Breakfast Puffs. Coffee. Dinner— Fried Chicken. Gravy. Baked Onions. Mashed Potato. Sliced Cucumbers. Bread and Butter. Pineapple Sherbet. Plain Cake. Supper— Iced Milk with Crackers. Berries. Cake. Fluffy Egg.— Heat 5^ cup milk to the boiling point, toast three slices of bread, beat the whites of 2 eggs stiff, dip the toast in hot salted water then add a little butter to the milk and as soon as melted stir in lightly the beaten whites and pour over the toast. Serve at once. MONDAY, AUG. Lamb Chops. Breakfast — Hominy with Cream. Hot Buttered Toast. Coffee. Dinner— Veal Cutlet. Potatoes. String Beans. Bread and Butter. Baked Custard. Supper— Corn Oysters. Bread and Butter. Berries. Cake. Tea. Corn Ovsters. — i quart of corn scraped or grated, 3 beaten eggs, an even teaspoonful salt, and flour enough to hold corn to- gether. Drop in small cakes into a hot buttered frying-pan and cook brown. The Popular Science News cautions housekeepers against using lemon-squeezers covered with a coating of zinc, as the citric acid of the lemon will readily dis- solve the zinc, forming unwholesome aud poisonous salts. Lemon-squeezers should be made either of plain iron or wood, or better, with the surfaces that are brought in contact with the fruit made of glass or porcelain. ». -V. -^ X v/'x/ w V. THURSDAY, JUNE Breakfast.— California Breakfast Food with Cream. Friz- ■ zled Beef. Bread and Butter. Doughnuts. Coflfee. ■*- Dinner. — Veal Cutlet. Potatoes. Asparagus. Bread and Butter. Cottage Pudding. Strawberry Sauce. Supper.— Mayonnaise of Lettuce. Bread and Butter. Steamed Pie Plant or Rhubarb. Cake. Cocoa. Steamed Rhubarb. — Wash, peel and cut rhubarb into inch pieces. Put into a granite double boiler, add one cup of sugar, for a pint of fruit, and cuuk till the rhubarb is soft. Do not stir it. Before cooking, pour boiling water over it and let stand five min- utes, then drain. FRIDAY, JUNE Breakfast. —Oatmeal with Cream. Hashed Veal on Toast. ^^^ Hot Rolls. Coffee. ^■^ Dinner. — Baked Shad. Hollandaise Sauce. Boiled Potatoes. Spinach. Bread and Butter. Cup Custard. Supper. — Scalloped Roes. Bread and Butter. Canned Fruit. Cake. Tea. ScAixoi'F.n Roes.— Boil the rocs, drain and break up. Sprinkle a layer of the roe in a baking dish, then rub the yolk of hard boiled eg^ through a fine strainer. Add a little parsley and lemon juice, moisten w:thathin white sauce, then another layer of roe, egg sauce and salt and pepper. Cover with fine cracker crumbs sprinkled with bits of butter. Bake until brown. SATURDAY, JUNE Breakfast. — Wheat Germ with Cream. Warmed over Fish ^^M on Toast. Bread and Butter. Doughnuts. Coffee. ^^ Dinner. — Ham and Eggs. Potatoes. Asparagus. Bread and Butler. Lemon Pie. Cheese. Supper. — Sardines with Sliced Lemon. Hot Rolls. Molasses Drop Cakes. Marmalade. Tea. Molasses Drop Cakes. — i egg^ i cup sugar, i cup molasses, i cup lard, i cup warm water, 2 teaspoonfuls soda, i teaspoonful gin- ger, flour

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